Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

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The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.

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There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

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In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

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Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

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Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.

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Thanks are the highest form of thought.

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Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

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I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

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White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

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The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

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It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

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Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

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The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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